Slashdot Items Tagged "themedia"

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Sunday April 14, 2024 @03:56PM Axios CEO Believes AI Will 'Eviscerate the Unprepared' Among Media Companies
Sunday March 10, 2024 @06:13PM Mock 'News' Sites With Russian Ties Pop Up in U.S.
Saturday March 02, 2024 @11:05PM 'Communications of the ACM' Is Now Open Access
Saturday February 10, 2024 @03:32AM EFF Challenges 'Legal Bullying' of Sites Reporting on Alleged Appin 'Hacking-for-Hire'
Saturday February 03, 2024 @11:59PM Craig Newmark Donates $10M to Help CUNY Journalism School Become Tuition-Free
Saturday January 13, 2024 @03:35AM Did a US Hedge Fund Help Destroy Local Journalism?
Monday January 08, 2024 @02:08AM How AI-Generated Content Could Fuel a Migration From Social Media to Independent 'Authored' Content
Wednesday December 27, 2023 @11:06AM The New York Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over AI Use of Copyrighted Work
Saturday December 09, 2023 @06:15AM Reactions Continue to Viral Video that Led to Calls for College Presidents to Resign
Saturday November 04, 2023 @02:16AM CNN Criticizes Microsoft's 'Making a Mess of the News' By Replacing MSN's Staff With AI
Friday November 03, 2023 @10:07PM Will 'News Influencers' Replace Traditional Media?
Saturday October 28, 2023 @11:56AM Tens of Millions Now Work in the $250B 'Creator Economy'
Saturday October 21, 2023 @12:32AM Newspapers Want Payment for Articles Used to Power ChatGPT
Friday October 20, 2023 @11:18PM What Happens When Major Online Platforms Lower Traffic to News Sites?
Saturday September 23, 2023 @12:33AM Can Philanthropy Save Local Newspapers?
Thursday September 21, 2023 @09:37AM Rupert Murdoch To Step Down as Chair of Fox and News Corp After Seven-Decade Career
Sunday September 03, 2023 @04:00PM Gannett Halts AI-Written Sports Recaps After Readers Mocked the Stories
Monday July 10, 2023 @12:42AM FTX's Celebrity Endorser Tom Brady Faces Worthless Stock, Lawsuits
Sunday July 09, 2023 @10:02PM How An AI-Written 'Star Wars' Story Created Chaos at Gizmodo
Sunday July 02, 2023 @03:22PM Why Major Newspapers Didn't Publish 'UFO Retrieval' Story
Saturday July 01, 2023 @09:17PM Gizmodo and Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Test of AI Content
Tuesday June 27, 2023 @04:54PM SiriusXM To Shut Down Stitcher Podcast App
Saturday June 24, 2023 @12:06PM Russian Coup Aided by Telegram, VPNs as Government Blocks Google News
Sunday June 18, 2023 @01:10PM Is AI Making Silicon Valley Rich on Other People's Work?
Wednesday June 14, 2023 @04:26PM Victory For Music Locker Services?
Friday May 05, 2023 @04:47PM Vice Media Group Preps $400 Million Sale To George Soros and Fortress
Tuesday May 02, 2023 @04:55PM Vice Media Group Prepares For Bankruptcy
Saturday March 04, 2023 @02:24AM Fake DMCA Takedowns Blocking Journalists' Stories
Sunday January 15, 2023 @02:31PM CNET Used AI to Write 75 Articles
Sunday December 25, 2022 @06:44PM Did YouTube Pay Too Much to Broadcast Sunday Football Games?
Saturday December 24, 2022 @12:59AM TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists
Sunday December 04, 2022 @08:49PM Senator Urges Automakers to Keep Making Cars with AM Radio
Saturday December 03, 2022 @03:46PM What Happened After Matt Taibbi Revealed Twitter's Deliberations on Hunter Biden Tweets?
Monday November 28, 2022 @06:34PM Media Groups Urge US To Drop Julian Assange Charges
Saturday November 19, 2022 @04:20PM Do Screens Before Bedtime Actually Improve Your Sleep?
Tuesday November 15, 2022 @02:12PM Mystery of BBC Radio's First Broadcasts Revealed 100 Years On
Friday October 28, 2022 @07:39PM Pranksters Posing as Laid-Off Twitter Employees Trick Media Outlets
Sunday October 23, 2022 @05:23PM Facebook Warns It Could Block News in Canada Over Proposed Legislation
Sunday October 23, 2022 @01:39PM Report that Indian Official Tampers With Instagram Posts Retracted By 'The Wire'
Wednesday September 14, 2022 @01:14PM New York Times' Lunchbox Perk Backfires Amid Work-From-Home Protest
Tuesday August 23, 2022 @12:14PM Asia's Richest Man To Buy Majority Stake in News Organization in 'Hostile' Takeover
Saturday July 30, 2022 @08:30PM CERN Is Totally Not Opening a Portal To Hell
Sunday July 24, 2022 @11:46PM Are Reviewers Refusing to Compare Wintel Laptops to Apple Silicon?
Wednesday July 20, 2022 @03:54PM Media Confidence Ratings at Record Lows
Wednesday July 13, 2022 @02:04PM Nearly a Third of New Subscribers To News Publications Cancel in the First 24 Hours
Friday July 08, 2022 @09:51PM 65 Editorial Workers at Wired Are Threatening to Strike
Friday May 06, 2022 @06:18PM 70-Year-Old Cyberpunk: 'This Interview Is a Mistake'
Saturday April 23, 2022 @01:24PM Open-Source Intelligence: How Bellingcat Uses Data Gathered by Authoritarian Governments
Saturday April 02, 2022 @01:59AM Ubiquiti Files Case Against Security Blogger Krebs Over 'False Accusations'
Sunday March 06, 2022 @07:53PM Tech Workers at New York Times Vote to Certify Union
Sunday February 27, 2022 @07:39PM Australia's Standoff Against Google and Facebook Worked - Sort Of
Friday February 25, 2022 @10:30PM Anonymous Launches Attacks Against Russia and Pledges Support For Ukraine
Sunday February 13, 2022 @09:59PM This Year's Super Bowl Broadcast May Seem 'Crypto-Happy'. But the NFL Isn't
Saturday February 12, 2022 @07:51PM Journalist Labeled 'Hacker' By Missouri's Governor Will Not Be Prosecuted
Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:09AM Are TED Talks Just Propaganda For the Technocracy?
Saturday February 05, 2022 @04:35PM Major US News Publisher Breached, Chinese Supply-Chain Attack Suspected
Monday January 24, 2022 @12:20AM James Cameron Warns of 'The Dangers of Deepfakes'
Saturday October 09, 2021 @01:59PM Former Employees Allege Most of Ozy's 26M Newsletter Subscribers Were Purchased, Borrowed, or Kept Against Their Will
Wednesday October 06, 2021 @11:00AM Russia Tells Its Space Reporters To Stop Reporting On the Space Program
Friday October 01, 2021 @09:19PM Bought Web Traffic and A Fake YouTube Executive: the Spectacular Failure of Ozy
Friday September 17, 2021 @11:17PM WSJ: Facebook's 2018 Algorithm Change 'Rewarded Outrage'. Zuck Resisted Fixes
Saturday September 11, 2021 @02:11PM Some 9/11 News Coverage is Lost. Blame Adobe Flash
Saturday August 14, 2021 @11:40PM Snopes.com Co-Founder Accused of Copying from Other Sites Without Attribution
Sunday August 01, 2021 @01:19PM YouTube Bans Sky News Australia for One Week Over Misinformation
Sunday July 25, 2021 @09:51AM YouTube Stars Were Offered Money to Spread Vaccine Misinformation
Saturday June 05, 2021 @12:24AM America's FBI Withdraws Demand for IP Addresses of Readers of a Newspaper's Story During a 35-Minute Window
Thursday May 27, 2021 @12:07PM Coinbase Launches 'Fact Check,' a Section on its Blog To Combat Misinformation about the Company and Crypto World
Saturday May 01, 2021 @10:18PM Musk's Claims Challenged About Absence of Autopilot in Texas Tesla Crash
Saturday April 24, 2021 @09:36PM Facebook Mistakenly Deletes Page for the Town of Bitche, France
Sunday April 11, 2021 @09:35PM 'Why We're Freaking Out About Substack'
Saturday April 10, 2021 @05:09PM How an Online 'Lego' Gamer Infiltrated the White House Press Corps
Saturday April 10, 2021 @11:28AM Would You Tell an Angel Investor How to Start a New Country?
Friday April 02, 2021 @07:56PM How Should the Media Depict Autism?
Friday March 26, 2021 @10:46PM How 'Rest of World' Wants to Change International Tech Coverage
Wednesday March 24, 2021 @11:21AM US Media Offering a Different Picture of Covid-19 From Science Journals or International Media, Study Finds
Monday March 15, 2021 @09:39AM Beijing Asks Alibaba To Shed Its Media Assets
Sunday February 21, 2021 @09:57PM Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter Agree to Australia's Misinformation-Fighting Code
Sunday February 14, 2021 @10:32PM WHO Team Member to New York Times: What We Learned in China
Sunday February 14, 2021 @09:38PM Two WHO Team Members Dispute Report China Wasn't Cooperative for Covid-19 Investigation
Friday February 12, 2021 @10:28AM China's CGTN No Longer Has Permission To Broadcast in Germany
Thursday February 11, 2021 @01:11PM BBC World News Barred From Airing in China
Wednesday February 10, 2021 @11:36AM 8-Year-Old Calls Out NPR For Lack Of Dinosaur Stories
Sunday January 31, 2021 @03:29PM A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?
Friday January 29, 2021 @09:52PM How Reddit's Co-Founder, Jim Cramer, and Wall Street Reacted to GameStop's Surge
Friday January 22, 2021 @03:46PM Boston Globe Will Consider People's Requests To Have Articles About Them Anonymized
Saturday January 16, 2021 @05:30PM Online Misinformation Dropped Dramatically After Twitter Banned Trump
Friday January 08, 2021 @04:58PM Steve Wozniak Warns People To Get Off of Facebook Due To Privacy Concerns
Saturday January 02, 2021 @12:56AM Among 2020's Most Underreported Stories: Pharmaceutical Profiteering May Accelerate Superbugs
Friday January 01, 2021 @09:49PM Journalist's Phone Hacked: All He Had To Do Was Visit a Website. Any Website.
Monday December 28, 2020 @09:34AM China Jails Citizen Journalist for Wuhan Reports
Saturday December 26, 2020 @01:52AM A Deepfake Queen Delivered an Alternative Christmas Speech to Warn about Misinformation
Friday December 18, 2020 @09:35PM Are Cryptocurrencies Becoming Mainstream Investments?
Monday December 07, 2020 @03:32PM Amazon Fire TV Adds Local News In 12 U.S. Cities, With 90 More Coming In 2021
Saturday November 28, 2020 @09:22PM Conspiracy Theorists Who'd First Popularized QAnon Now Accused of Financial Motives
Saturday November 28, 2020 @02:12AM What Hunting Bigfoot Taught a Republican Congressman about Misinformation, Political Extremists, and Grift
Sunday November 22, 2020 @09:09PM How Powerful Forces Collaborated to Peddle Misinformation about the Origins of the Coronavirus
Saturday November 07, 2020 @01:13AM Election-Related Misinformation on Social Media Still 'Readily Viewable' - If It's In Spanish
Saturday October 24, 2020 @03:52PM Snopes.com Exposes 4chan Campaign to 'Kindle Mistrust in Snopes'
Sunday October 18, 2020 @04:04PM Is QAnon an 8Chan Game Gone Wrong?
Sunday October 11, 2020 @03:49PM Google Halts Its Curated News Plan in Australia, Calling Government's Rules 'Unworkable'
Saturday September 05, 2020 @07:49PM Boardwatch/EVTV Founder Jack Rickard Dies at Age 65
Tuesday September 01, 2020 @02:51PM Facebook Threatens To Cut Off Australians From Sharing News
Monday August 17, 2020 @12:54AM Google Warns Australians it Really Doesn't Want to Pay for News
Sunday August 02, 2020 @04:42PM Larry King Duped Into 'Disinfomercial' on Social Media By China (and Possibly Russia)
Friday July 24, 2020 @11:43PM Bill Gates Has a Message For Conspiracy Theorists
Monday July 20, 2020 @02:11AM Full Text of US State Department Cables Finally Released, Showing Safety In Chinese Lab
Tuesday July 14, 2020 @01:33PM Hundreds of Hyperpartisan Sites Are Masquerading as Local News
Friday July 10, 2020 @09:42PM Is Twitter Shifting the Balance of Power From Companies to Their Employees?
Monday July 06, 2020 @11:44PM Venture Capitalists' Critiques of Journalism Secretly Leaked to Journalists
Sunday July 05, 2020 @01:30PM Is Slashdot the Answer to Facebook's Fake News Problem?
Saturday July 04, 2020 @04:33PM US Senate Amends EARN IT Act -- To Let States Restrict Encryption
Wednesday July 01, 2020 @01:15PM Minecraft Is Now Home To a Virtual Library of Censored Journalism
Thursday June 25, 2020 @11:55AM Facebook Will Show Users a Pop-up Warning Before They Share an Outdated Story
Friday June 12, 2020 @07:18PM Pentagon Seeking Out Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange
Monday June 08, 2020 @02:31PM The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (of Technology)
Monday June 01, 2020 @12:05AM Are News Outlets Responsible For Comments Left On Their Facebook Pages?
Saturday May 30, 2020 @08:01PM Microsoft Replaces Dozens of Staff With AI for News Stories on MSN
Thursday May 28, 2020 @10:25AM How Baidu's AI Produces News Videos Using Just a URL
Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:33AM Local News Stations Run Propaganda Segment Scripted and Produced by Amazon
Friday May 22, 2020 @11:36AM Amazon's Audible Goes Beyond Books To Chase Spotify in Podcasts
Wednesday May 20, 2020 @04:17PM The Public Do Not Understand Logarithmic Graphs Used To Portray COVID-19
Tuesday May 19, 2020 @09:40PM Joe Rogan is Moving His Podcast, One of the World's Most Popular Podcasts, Exclusively To Spotify
Tuesday May 19, 2020 @03:54PM The New York Times Phasing Out All 3rd-Party Advertising Data
Monday May 11, 2020 @02:27PM Twitter To Label Disputed COVID-19 Tweets
Sunday May 10, 2020 @09:22AM 'Murder Hornet' Meme Inspires Stupid Americans To Kill Pollinators En Masse
Sunday April 19, 2020 @03:35PM Australia Will Force Google and Facebook to Pay for News Content
Sunday March 22, 2020 @12:58AM Russia Accused of Deploying Coronavirus Disinformation to Sow Distrust
Saturday March 21, 2020 @04:03PM What Are the Best Free Streaming Services?
Sunday February 09, 2020 @11:28PM As Sacha Baron Cohen Criticizes Zuckerberg, Elon Musk Tweets "#DeleteFacebook'
Sunday February 09, 2020 @02:06PM Fake News Hoax in Russia Tries Blaming the US For Coronavirus
Sunday December 29, 2019 @08:41PM Washington Post Writer Calls 2019 'The Year of OK Boomer', Calls for Inter-Generational Kindness
Saturday December 28, 2019 @02:36PM Would Social Media Have Made Life Worse For Richard Jewell?
Friday December 27, 2019 @08:30PM Spotify Joins Twitter in Suspending Political Ads in 2020
Sunday December 22, 2019 @03:18PM Tech News Site 'The INQUIRER' Is Shutting Down
Saturday December 21, 2019 @06:20PM Bloomberg Fined $7.6M For Re-Publishing Info From Fake Press Release
Saturday December 14, 2019 @01:20AM YouTube's Algorithm Made Fake CNN Reports Go Viral
Sunday December 08, 2019 @06:24PM Chinese Newspaper Touts Videogame Where Players 'Hunt Down Traitors' in Hong Kong
Saturday December 07, 2019 @01:40AM Can We Kill Fake News With Blockchain?
Sunday October 27, 2019 @01:15PM The World's First Banner Ad Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary
Saturday October 26, 2019 @11:35PM Pando Editor Sells Site, Quits Journalism, Citing Sexual Harassment and Threats in Silicon Valley
Sunday September 15, 2019 @12:35AM Google's Search Results Begin Prioritizing 'Original Reporting'
Sunday September 08, 2019 @12:11AM The Washington Post's Newest Product: Personalized Newsletters
Friday August 02, 2019 @08:31PM Did WhatsApp Backdoor Rumor Come From 'Unanswered Questions ' and 'Leap of Faith' For Closed-Source Encryption Products?
Sunday July 14, 2019 @07:54PM Craigslist Founder: Most Online Outrage is Faked For Profit
Saturday June 01, 2019 @11:28PM NYT 'Op Eds From the Future' Launch With Sci-Fi Writer Ted Chiang
Friday May 03, 2019 @11:19PM Amazon's Doorbell Company Is Selling Fear
Sunday March 24, 2019 @10:17AM Is Social Media Losing Ground To Email Newsletters?
Sunday March 17, 2019 @01:28PM 'Facebook, Axios And NBC Paid This Guy To Whitewash Wikipedia Pages'
Sunday March 10, 2019 @07:33PM Cringley's Next 2019 Predictions: Only 3.5 Cloud Players Will Survive
Saturday January 19, 2019 @01:44PM Mark Zuckerberg's Mentor 'Shocked and Disappointed' -- But He Has a Plan
Saturday December 15, 2018 @07:32PM CNN Contributor Urges: Stop Calling Facebook a Tech Company
Saturday September 29, 2018 @03:49AM New Web Site Will Team Journalists With Programmers
Friday June 08, 2018 @11:46PM Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion
Friday May 18, 2018 @11:43PM Should The Media Cover Tesla Accidents?
Saturday May 05, 2018 @12:37AM Facebook Exec Admits 'No Real Understanding' for the Scope of Fake News
Saturday March 17, 2018 @12:38AM Vim Beats Emacs in 'Linux Journal' Reader Survey
Saturday February 24, 2018 @12:11AM BuzzFeed Unmasks Mastermind Who Urged Peter Thiel To Destroy Gawker
Monday February 05, 2018 @12:33AM Hulu, NBC Experience Glitches During Super Bowl Telecast
Saturday February 03, 2018 @11:55PM Camera Makers Resist Encryption, Despite Warnings From Photographers
Monday January 22, 2018 @03:27AM LWN.Net Celebrates Its 20th Birthday
Sunday January 21, 2018 @08:31PM Facebook Reopens Probe Into Russian Involvement in Brexit
Friday January 12, 2018 @07:25PM Peter Thiel Is Now Bidding on Gawker.com
Saturday January 06, 2018 @02:45PM Bill Gates Is First Guest Editor In Time Magazine's 94-Year History
Sunday December 24, 2017 @05:27PM Wired Publishes Fake Christmas Letter By Elon Musk
Sunday December 17, 2017 @03:49PM Former Exec Who Said Facebook Was 'Destroying Society' Still Loves Facebook
Sunday December 17, 2017 @12:19AM Artificial Intelligence Is Killing the Uncanny Valley and Our Grasp On Reality
Saturday December 16, 2017 @05:00PM Google News Will Purge Sites Masking Their Country of Origin
Friday December 15, 2017 @10:10PM 'The Gawker Foundation' is Crowdfunding a Bid To Re-Launch Gawker.com
Saturday November 25, 2017 @05:59PM After Bankrupting Gawker, Peter Thiel Demands a Chance to Buy Them
Sunday November 19, 2017 @09:30PM Net Neutrality is Essentially Unassailable, Argues Billionaire Barry Diller
Sunday November 05, 2017 @07:12PM 'Panama Papers' Group Strikes Again with 'Paradise Papers'
Sunday November 05, 2017 @06:12PM 'Panama Papers' Group Strikes Again with 'Paradise Papers'
Saturday November 04, 2017 @04:26PM New Victims in the 'Billionaire War on Journalism'
Saturday November 04, 2017 @03:49PM Peter Thiel Could End Up Owning Gawker
Sunday October 22, 2017 @04:16PM Google Says It Hasn't Promised To Help News Sites By Sharing Money and User Data
Sunday October 08, 2017 @03:00PM CNN Skeptical of Elon Musk's 'Big Promises'
Sunday September 24, 2017 @06:36PM Google AMP Flaw Exploited By Russian Hackers Targeting Journalists
Friday September 22, 2017 @09:56PM Governments Turn Tables By Suing Public Records Requesters
Friday September 08, 2017 @09:59PM SciFi Author (and Byte Columnist) Jerry Pournelle Has Died
Friday September 01, 2017 @10:31PM Police Allegedly Arrest UK News Photographer For Standing In A Field
Sunday August 27, 2017 @06:56PM Columnist Mocks The Case Against Cord-Cutting As 'Too Many Choices'
Sunday August 27, 2017 @12:38AM Streaming Glitches Delay Massively Hyped Mayweather-McGregor Boxing Match
Sunday August 13, 2017 @02:03PM Bitcoin Just Surged Past $4,000. TechCrunch Explains Why
Saturday August 12, 2017 @08:50PM 28 Years Later, Pioneering Tech Magazine 'Mondo 2000' Relaunches Online
Sunday July 30, 2017 @01:05PM CNET Pranked By Web Site's Fake 'All Out War' Hack During DEFCON
Saturday July 08, 2017 @03:39PM Google Funds A Team Of Robot Journalists
Sunday May 28, 2017 @09:28PM Walt Mossberg's Last Column Calls For Privacy and Security Laws
Sunday May 28, 2017 @11:31AM Seven Science Journals Have A Dog On Their Editorial Board
Friday May 19, 2017 @06:41PM Aftermath From The Net Neutrality Vote: A Mass Movement To Protect The Open Internet?
Sunday May 14, 2017 @05:31PM Streaming Services Will Pay Writers More Under New Writers Guild Pact
Sunday April 02, 2017 @09:18PM Will Streaming Media Lead To A Massive Writer's Strike?
Monday March 13, 2017 @12:33AM Tim Berners-Lee Warns About the Web's Three Biggest Threats
Sunday March 12, 2017 @04:31PM Nick Denton Predicts 'The Good Internet' Will Rise Again
Friday March 10, 2017 @10:26PM Police Allegedly Threaten A UK Photographer With Seizure Of All His Computers
Saturday March 04, 2017 @03:47PM Facebook Begins Marking 'Fake News' As 'Disputed'
Saturday February 18, 2017 @02:46PM Techdirt Asks Judge To Dismiss Another Lawsuit By That Guy Who Didn't Invent Email
Sunday February 12, 2017 @12:53AM Trend Micro's Own Cybersecurity Blog Gets Hacked
Monday February 06, 2017 @01:47AM The Brief, Bumbling Tech Careers of Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys, and Will.i.am
Sunday February 05, 2017 @09:01PM A Super Bowl Koan: Does The NFL Wish It Were A Tech Company?
Sunday January 29, 2017 @09:35PM Running For Congress, Brianna Wu Criticizes The FBI's GamerGate Report